This is halarious...IMHO..disconcerting too....

supermama2

Fri, Oct 31 2008, 1:26 pm

Ah . . Sorry to bother you Mr. Obama, Sir

Excuse me Mr. Obama, I mean Senator Obama, sir. Um . . . know you are busy and important and stuff. I mean running for president is very important and . . . ah . . . I hate to bother you. I will only take a minute ok, sir?

See, I have these missing pieces that are holding me up, and I was wondering sir, if you could take time out of your busy schedule and help me out. You know, no big deal, just some loose ends and things.

Hey, you have a nice place here! The wife sees houses like this on TV all the time and says boy she wishes she had digs like this you know? Is that painting real? Really? Wow. I saw something like that in a museum once!

Oh, sorry sir. I didn't mean to get off the track. So if you could just help me out a minute and give me some details, I will get right out of your way. I want to close this case and maybe take the wife to Coney Island or something. Ever been to Coney Island ? No, I didn't think so. .

Well, listen, anyways, I can't seem to get some information I need to wrap this up. These things seem to either be 'locked' or 'not available'. I'm sure it's just some oversight or glitch or something, so if you could you tell me where these things are . . . I . . I . . . have them written down here somewhere . . . oh wait. Sorry about the smears. It was raining out. I'll just read it to you.

Could you help me please find these things, sir?

1. Occidental College records -- Not released
2. Columbia College records -- Not released
3. Columbia Thesis paper -- 'not available'
4. Harvard College records -- Not released

5. Selective Service Registration -- Not released
6. Medical records -- Not released
7. Illinois State Senate schedule -- 'not available'
8. Law practice client list -- Not released
9. Certified Copy of original Birth certificate -- Not released
10. Embossed, signed paper Certification of Live Birth -- Not released
11. Harvard Law Review articles published -- None
12. University of Chicago scholarly articles -- None
13. Your Record of baptism-- Not released or 'not available'
14. Your Illinois State Senate records--'not available'

Oh hey listen! I know you are busy! Is this too much for you now? I mean tell you what. I will come back tomorrow. Give you some time to get these things together, you know? I mean, I know you are busy, so I will just let myself out. I will be back tomorrow.

"Who wants to know these things?" asked Senator Obama.

Columbo answered: "THE PEOPLE!"

supermama2

Fri, Oct 31 2008, 2:59 pm

no one has ever heard of Columbo?

Barbara

Fri, Oct 31 2008, 3:33 pm

SarahO. wrote:

Don't have the time or inclination to check this out. I've seen the embossed birth certificate online. I've posted a link to it 3 or 4 times. Given the fact that there's at least one blatant lie in here, I'd say its all suspect.

As to Selective Service, I would have thought he was born in one of the exempt years, but apparently he wasn't. For those who don't know, Selective Service registration was ended in the US, then later reinstituted. Men who didn't have to register at 18, including Obama, were required to register some time later, in his case when he was 25 or 26. I'm about his age, and had no clue about that; I certainly don't remember my friends registering at that time. So I don't know if he registered, and I don't know if he knew he had to register. Oh, what the hay:

*After contacting the Selective Service System for an answer several times since late June, Pajamas Media obtained official confirmation from the Selective Service System via email that Barack Obama did indeed register for the Selective Service as required by law, and is eligible to run for the presidency.

Mr. Owens,

Barack Hussein Obama registered at a post office in Hawaii. The effective registration date was September 4, 1980.

His registration number is 61-1125539-1.

Daniel Amon
Public Affairs Specialist*

So another lie. What a surprise!!

Voting records are a matter of public record, and have been discussed at length as to both candidates. Any suggestion to the contrary is false.

But honestly. Do you CARE about his thesis (if he wronte one)? I've no idea if he did. I've no idea if McCain did. What either one was writing about at age 21 or so doesn't really concern me. Unless there is reason to believe that either candidate suffers from a debilitating illness, I'm not worried there, either. McCain obviously elected to release his medical records because, bluntly, he's old. Do you know what they say? Do you know what the records that Obama DID release say? (Hint -- there is an issue in there.)

Clarissa

Fri, Oct 31 2008, 3:37 pm

Hey, this is nothing. There are complaints in the other thread about not getting to read Michelle Obama's thesis. Personally, I'd like to see Todd Palin's boy scout badges, but I've had no responses to my request. Nor have I gotten anything from Cindy McCain about sharing that diary she kept in the seventh grade. It's a plot, I tell you, a plot.

supermama2

Fri, Oct 31 2008, 3:41 pm

It was meant to be a hoot for the most part esp. for those who know of Columbo..

chaylizi

Fri, Oct 31 2008, 3:44 pm

who's columbo

yo'ma

Fri, Oct 31 2008, 3:46 pm

chaylizi wrote:

who's columbo

He's a tv character on Columbo. That's exactly how he talks.

Clarissa

Fri, Oct 31 2008, 3:49 pm

I loved him. The little car, the rumpled raincoat, the basset hound. Peter Falk is a hoot. Sure, it was formulaic, but it was so much fun.

yo'ma

Fri, Oct 31 2008, 3:50 pm

We have reruns, but they're all in spanish. I would watch it otherwise. I did like it.

Barbara

Fri, Oct 31 2008, 3:53 pm

Clarissa wrote:

I loved him. The little car, the rumpled raincoat, the basset hound. Peter Falk is a hoot. Sure, it was formulaic, but it was so much fun.

A little culture here. Columbo is based on Porfiry Petrovich from Crime and Punishment.

cassandra

Fri, Oct 31 2008, 3:54 pm

Clarissa wrote:

I loved him. The little car, the rumpled raincoat, the basset hound. Peter Falk is a hoot. Sure, it was formulaic, but it was so much fun.

We are huge Columbo fans. I'd vote him for President but he'd never get elected with the glass eye and the constant drinking on the job. (Though it never, ever affected his work.)

Clarissa

Fri, Oct 31 2008, 3:56 pm

Wow, I didn't know that. I've never read it. Who knew the brains behind old tv shows could be Dostoevsky lovers? What's next, the characters in "Green Acres" were based on some Jane Austin novel? Gilligan is actually from Shakespeare?

btMOMtoFFBs

Fri, Oct 31 2008, 4:04 pm

What do you think the Brady Bunch is based on?

Clarissa

Fri, Oct 31 2008, 4:12 pm

btMOMtoFFBs wrote:

What do you think the Brady Bunch is based on?

Very loosely on Little Women. Only this is from the original version, where the father dies in the war and Marmie remarries a man with four boys of his own, and they knew that it was much more than a hunch that this group would somehow form a family, that's the way they all became the Concord bunch.

btMOMtoFFBs

Fri, Oct 31 2008, 4:19 pm

LOL!

A Gut Shabbos!

cassandra

Fri, Oct 31 2008, 4:22 pm

Barbara wrote:

Clarissa wrote:

I loved him. The little car, the rumpled raincoat, the basset hound. Peter Falk is a hoot. Sure, it was formulaic, but it was so much fun.

A little culture here. Columbo is based on Porfiry Petrovich from Crime and Punishment.

Please note that he was only partially based on Porfiry Petrovich. So much of what I love about Columbo is that he's a teddy bear, so I wouldn't want to take the analogy too far.

ClaRivka

Fri, Oct 31 2008, 5:52 pm

My mother made me watch colombo one summer. it was good.

zaq

Thu, Nov 06 2008, 1:24 pm

[quote="SarahO."] Rolling Laughter

It was meant to be a hoot for the most part esp. for those who know of Columbo..[/quote]

You do a real good columbo impression. I got it in about 12 secs, and I only saw the show at most 3-4 times.

Fox

Thu, Nov 06 2008, 1:39 pm

Clarissa wrote:

Gilligan is actually from Shakespeare?

To my knowledge, Gilligan isn't based on a specific work, but the creator, Sherwood Schwartz, wanted to produce a show in which characters would represent various facets of American society and values. He claimed he got the idea from the naturalistic fiction of authors like Theodore Dreiser and Emile Zola, who used characters to exemplify class conflicts and social issues.

Clarissa

Thu, Nov 06 2008, 1:48 pm

Fox wrote:

Clarissa wrote:

Gilligan is actually from Shakespeare?

Another interpretation, found online:

"Nietzsche warned us that as we stare into the abyss, so the abyss stares into us. In the same way, as we watched the seemingly mindless syndicated show, we were being exposed to a brilliant rendering of existentialist doctrine.
Gilligan and his comrades were tantalized by the prospect of the paradise of mainland. Mainland in this case, clearly stands for man's search for eternal life in Heaven. It is well understood by the audience that the island prisoners will never arrive at this mythical place. Not by Science, as personified by the Professor, who with limited resources can accomplish anything except deliverance to the promised land. Not by Wealth, as personified by the Howells, nor by beauty and art ( Ginger), nor by being a good person ( Mary Ann ), nor pragmatism and industry ( the Skipper ).
We identify with Gilligan, the everyman who finds no salvation in the attempts of these beneficent social forces. Indeed, he is often a victim of their attempts to bridge the gaps between here and the hereafter. When we find him attacked by sharks or falling from the sky in some ill-fated attempt to escape the island, we understand Heidegger's claim that we are cursed with freedom. It is no coincidence that the theme of an inability to reach God is prevalent in each episode. For example, when an attempt is made to spell SOS with burning logs, in order to reach Astronauts in a capsule flying overhead ( representing the height of man's science at the time ), Gilligan accidentally reorders the sign to spell SOL, thus becoming a burnt offering to the Roman sun god "Sol", principal deity in a religion that was once at the core of the mightiest empire the world has ever known, but also a religion that has long ago lost its last follower and any relevance. It is a symbol of the vain and fleeting nature of man's efforts to connect to something greater than himself.
The other overriding themes center around the loss of self and the inexorable proposition of non-existence. The prospect of annihilation into the abyss of quicksand is ever present. So complete is this form of destruction that nothing is left of the victim, not even clothing or bones, unless they have a hat which serves as an impromptu grave marker.
Sartre's well known quote, "L'enfer est l'autre." that can be translated as either "Hell is other people" or "Hell is the other." is manifest as the "people" on the "other" side of the island. These cannibals consume their victim's flesh, just as other people subsume their victim's identity.
The ultimate absurdist humor is derived from the fact the show is still being broadcast to new generations, as it probably always will, as long as the medium of broadcast television is available. In this way, the creators have devised the most accurate working model of Nietzsche's theory of eternal recurrence."

from the same site:

http://www.transparencynow.com/gilligan.htm

and this:

http://www.transparencynow.com/gil1.htm